Removing And Installing The Floppy Disk Drive - Siemens SIMATIC Panel PC 870 Equipment Manual

Release 11/02
4.2.2

Removing and installing the floppy disk drive

1. Open the housing as described in Section 4.1.
2. Remove the hard disk mounting as described in section 4.2.1.
3. make a note of the cable assignment and detach the data and power supply
cables from the floppy disk drive.
4. Loosen the interlocking of the controller flexible cable on the motherboard and
pull the flexible cable out of the plug connection.
5. Loosen the two fixing screws (TORX T8) on the system housing (see Fig. 4-6)
and lift the drive cage out of the housing.
6. Proceed in the reverse order to install the new drive. The new drive must be of
the same type as the one removed.
Figure 4-6 Installing and removing the floppy disk drive
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Floppy disk drive fixing screws
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